A poor week for the Cons. Is it entirely coincidental, or is there something cooking ?
I wouldn't read much into it. But the Lib Dems do seem to be having a number of good results; I wonder how their Witney campaign is going.
I think a lot of the good local by-election results are the Lib Dems recovering from the electoral damage the coalition caused, at least in some of their stronger areas. There does not seem to be a general recovery yet, but persistent local campaigning is now more likely to produce a good result than it has in the last few years.
The Lib Dems do seem to want to mount a strenuous campaign in Witney. It will be interesting to see if a parliamentary by-election electorate reacts in the same way that some local by-election voters have been doing.
